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Fat Cat wrote:I want to live there!

yonza bam wrote:I used to live in the human rabbit warren known as Caledonian Mansions in the late 70s. It's the big building next to the Kelvin Bridge on Gt Western Road. There was a nondescript wee cafe among the shops below where I often ate.

I started a thread in another place about today being the 30th anniversary of Kate Bush's 'Wuthering Heights' getting to number 1 in the charts, and how I first heard it while in this wee cafe in 1978.

Anyways, what began as a Kate Bush appreciation and 'can it really be 30 years?' thread has turned in to a 'whit wee cafe?' thread. No one remembers it. Hardly surprising. It had nothing much going for it except that it was cheap and just doon the stairs. If it had a name, I never knew what it was. Just 'the cafe'.

Here's a link to the shops there in 1974. The first shop is a chippie (Philadelphia?'). The black shop is a hairdresser's. But I don't recognise anything else there. I'm seriously starting to wonder if I've got 'false memory syndrome' . Does anyone else remember a cafe here? Any ideas when it closed or what it's name was?

http://www.mitchelllibrary.org/virtualm ... =2&t=4&x=1

Jazza wrote:This is one of my all time favourite threads, so I have a wee update.

I was in a meeting at the Clydesdale Bank and saw a painting I liked, a nice landscape with sheep.

Noted down the artists name - John Cunningham, who turns out to be a well know figure: http://www.johncunningham.org.uk/

On his website it mentions: "John lived in a magnificent and spacious studio flat in the centre of Glasgow which was designed by Sir John Burnett expressly for the use of an artist, and which had previously been owned by other artists including John McGhie and David Gauld" and that got me curious about where it was (I really like the idea that things have went full circle and that over 100 years ago the concept of home working was embraced and actually considered by architects).

A wee bit of detective work later and the flat turns out to be in Albany Mansions, and the PDF schedule from the last time it was for sale is online: http://rycramweb.eu/cms/ftp/10/property-schedules/2398.pdf

Bridie wrote:I can't stop thinking about that house and what a fantastic place to live.

dazza wrote:

Bridie wrote:I can't stop thinking about that house and what a fantastic place to live.

Property Porn ?